Parent Workshops

Growing Reading Brains: Parent Edition Workshops
Louisiana Reads! offers virtual and in-person workshops with the goal of increasing families’ confidence in leading their child’s literacy-focused education. These workshops cover a variety of topics, including supporting phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension through book-reading. These workshops also provide participants with electronic and printed resources to support their child’s learning experience at home.

Engaging Workshops and Book Distribution Options

1. Growing Reading Brains: Parent Edition Workshop (In-Person)
2. Growing Reading Brains: Parent Edition Workshop(Virtual)
3. Community Program Partner w/ Book Distribution

Parent Portal Playlist


In this digital library, there are a number of short videos and printable pages to help increase parents’ knowledge and confidence in language-based learning for their children and utilize read-aloud strategies to foster those learning opportunities. These strategies include how to guide the child through reading, how to interact with the book, how to ask questions throughout the book that has the child critically thinking, things that foster creativity and connecting stories to real-life situations. Additionally, there are foundational reading skill learning supports.


Parent Portal Playlist Link
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